Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Ways to Develop a Reading Community
One of the cardinal rules of developing community on line is to post new content every day. I try, and don’t always succeed, to post at least one message on my blog(s) as possible. This is doubly important as I transition from imagespace.blogspot.com to dogstar.org/drupal. So, when you are trying to create community on a blog, here are some tips/thoughts.
1) Post every day you possibly can.
2) Create content that is useful to your public
3) Include rich media like video, audio, and pictures.
4) Give your public a voice on your site
5) Promote your materials—one can do this for free or near free by posting to other forums that have a similar bent, posting to other forums in which you already have a voice, and getting as many links back to your site as possible.
6) If you can, ensure that folks can easily add you to DIGG, Technorati, Google, Yahoo, and other search engines and social networking sites.
7) Offer your materials under a creative commons license to encourage sharing. Sharing is good.
8) Syndicate content from others who are sharing using the creative commons license.
9) If a conversation begins on your site, encourage it EVEN if you disagree with the poster. Discourse is essential to building a vibrant interesting community.
10) Repeat.
1) Post every day you possibly can.
2) Create content that is useful to your public
3) Include rich media like video, audio, and pictures.
4) Give your public a voice on your site
5) Promote your materials—one can do this for free or near free by posting to other forums that have a similar bent, posting to other forums in which you already have a voice, and getting as many links back to your site as possible.
6) If you can, ensure that folks can easily add you to DIGG, Technorati, Google, Yahoo, and other search engines and social networking sites.
7) Offer your materials under a creative commons license to encourage sharing. Sharing is good.
8) Syndicate content from others who are sharing using the creative commons license.
9) If a conversation begins on your site, encourage it EVEN if you disagree with the poster. Discourse is essential to building a vibrant interesting community.
10) Repeat.
